‘Global CPR’ to start pumping
■The 20th Environmental Law
Conference expects 3,000
participants for its 125 events
By Kara Cogswell
Oregon Daily Emerald
First aid for the planet is the goal
behind the 2002 Public Interest En
vironmental Law Conference,
which begins today and runs
through Sunday. This year’s confer
ence theme is “Global CPR: Conser
vation, Preservation, Restoration.”
“The theme represents an
urgency on the part of humans to
start preserving, conserving and
restoring the resources of the plan
et,” said conference co-director
Jonathan Manton.
More than 3,000 people from
around the world, including ac
tivists, attorneys, students and sci
entists, are expected to attend the
conference, which is now in its
20th year.
The conference is sponsored and
organized by the University student
group Land Air Water, an environ
mental law student society that cur
rently has more than 60 members.
This year’s conference lineup in
cludes keynote addresses by envi
ronmental activists and more than
125 panels, workshops, films and
other events.
Keynote speakers include sever
al well-known figures in the envi
ronmental movement such as
Sarah James, Ralph Nader, Michael
Frome and John Echohawk.
Bennett Raley, the Bush adminis
tration’s Assistant Secretary for Wa
ter and Science in the Department
of the Interior was originally sched
uled to speak, but he was unable to
attend because he is testifying in
U.S. Senate hearings this week.
James, a member of the Interna
tional Indian Treaty Council, will
speak on Thursday. Nader, a former
Green party presidential candidate,
and Echohawk, the executive direc
tor of the Native American Rights
Fund, will speak on Friday. Frame,
a conservation writer and journal
ist will speak on Saturday.
Among conference speakers are
also three past winners of the pres
tigious Goldman Environmental
Prize, including Lois Gibbs, who
organized the Love Canal Home
owners Association in 1978 after
discovering that her neighborhood
had been built on top of a toxic
waste dump.
Workshops and panels will cover
a broad range of environmental top
ics, such as global ecosystems, stu
dent activism, labor issues and
hemp litigation. Conference co-di
rector Brad Schaeppi said the diver
sity of panel topics and presenters is
a unique advantage of the event.
Although it is a law conference,
speakers and panel presenters rep
resent not only the legal communi
ty but “all the actors who can talk
about the issues from the environ
mental perspective,” he said.
Panels, keynote addresses and
other conference events are free for
University students. Fees for non
students will be assessed on a slid
ing scale according to ability to pay.
Everyone attending conference
events is asked to register at the
Knight Law Center. Registration
will be held on the front steps of the
law center from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. to
day through Saturday, and from
8:30-11 a.m. Sunday.
For law students and non-law
students, the conference provides
2002 Public Interest
Environmental Law
Conference
Thursday
Welcome and opening address,
7-9:30 p.m.
Oave Foreman
Sarah James
Friday
Noon: Ralph Nader
6:30*9 p.m.: John Bonlfaz
John Echo hawk
Lois Gibbs
Saturday
t-2:15 p.m.: Linda Krop
Alexander Nikitin
7:30-9 p.m.: Gloria Flora
Michael Frome
Jaime Pinkham
Sunday
Closing address, 1-2:20 p.m.
Rodolfo Montiel Flores
Eugene Rutagarama
All keynote addresses will be held
in die EMU Ballroom.
a chance to learn more about envi
ronmental issues and activism on
both the local and international
level, conference co-director Jen
Dues said.
“It just gives you a good opportu
nity ... to find out what other peo
ple are doing in the environmental
movement,” she said.
E-mail student activities editor Kara Cogswell
at karacogswell@dailyemerald.com.
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